Zach Smith
Executive Director at RepRap Research Foundation
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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SeniorZach Smith is an experienced web developer and technology leader with 13 years building scalable web applications and services. As Executive Director of the RepRap Research Foundation since 2007, he blends hands-on engineering with open hardware advocacy, leading work on an influential open-source 3D printer project. His technical toolkit spans PHP, MySQL, HTML, AJAX, JSON and XML, and he has a history of delivering web systems in university, agency, and startup environments. Previously he served as a senior developer at Connected Ventures and ran his own consulting shop, MyKin, demonstrating both product-focused and entrepreneurial experience. Based in Ames, Iowa, Zach brings a practical, community-minded approach to tooling and infrastructure that favors reproducibility and scalability. An early adopter of maker culture, he pairs web systems expertise with a long-term commitment to open collaborative hardware.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (71)
websocket10
arduino-library10
esp3210
loadtest10
http-server10
nodejs10
https-server10
open-hardware9
http9
3d9
hardware9
arduino9
esp-idf9
espressif8
derived8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hoeken/yarrboard
Jun 2023 - Apr 2026
Open hardware digital switching for boats
Contributions:4 releases, 426 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
open-hardwareesp32-arduinohardwaresignalk
hoeken/frothfet
Aug 2024 - May 2026
Yarrboard load controller board with current sense, volt sense, fuses, and sender support.
Contributions:2 releases, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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